The Six Lions of Lion 6 is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by The Lion with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working population of 25.405 billion Lions are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lioness. The average income tax rate is 77.7%.

The strong Lion 6ian economy, worth 791 trillion Lions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 31,170 Lions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of Lion 6's historical leaders at Mount Rushless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lion 6's national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Lionism.

Lion 6 is ranked 152,132^nd in the world and 82^nd in Vlaanderen for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.85 law-abiding acts per hour.